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WILLIAM M'. TOBEY, CF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT. Laan Pasaia. 63,186,mamma 26, 1867.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM M. TOBEY, of the city and county of NewLoudon, and State of'Connectic'ut, have invented a new and usefulMachine for Polishing Starcrhed Shirt Bosoms or othei` articlesof likecharacter; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in thefollowing specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, ofwhich'- Figure 1 is a top view. 4

-`.Figure 2, n. front elevation; and

Figure 3, a transverse section of it, such section being tak'enthro'ughthe' polishing .tool and the treadle, to be hereinafter described.

In such drawings A is the frame ofthe machine, as provided with twostandards, a a, on which are erected boxes'b I; for supporting ahorizontal slide-rod, B, so as to allow-offsuch rod being moved back andforth longitudinally. A bar, C, fixed at its middle to one end-of thesaid rod B and arranged at right Aangles tothe rod, has anotherbar, C,disposed parallel to and at ashort distance from it, the ,'two' bars C Cbeing connected at their ends by screw-bolts o o going Athrough them,and provided with nuts, as shown in the drawings.' A box,

l), slides on and between the two bars C C and receives the wrist cofacrank, E, sch fwrist being so 'fixed to' its arm, d, as 'to beadjustable in distance from the axis of a. shaft, F, to oneend ofwhicht-he crank-arm is'fixed.'

This shaft, duly supported in bearings e e, has' a fast pulley, f, andauloosevpulleyq'q, applied to it, and is-*to be 4revolved by a beltrunning on the fast pulley. A chambered polishing tool, G, is fastenedtothe rod B, and

extends' down therefrom, as represented, and is to have appliances bywhich it-may be heated by a stream of. gas thrown into and in ilainedwithin it. Underneath the said tool is atableor platform, H,fwhich issupported by another platform, I, aiix'ed on the upper end of a pitman,K, so affixed to the .frame Aasv to be capable of sliding verticallytherein: The platform H is supported on parallel guide-rails t it,projecting upward from the table I, and such platformy has an adjustingscrew, z', applied 4to it and the table, wherebyby revolving the screw,the platform may be moved transversely of the frame,'either forwarderbackward, underneath the polishing tool. The lower end ofthe-pitman isjointed to one end of a shortlevcr', 1 whose other arm is jointed to aprojection, m, extended .up from a treadle, n, 'the whole being arrangedas represented in the drawings.'

In Operating with the machine the shirt bosom. or article to'be polishedor ironed', is .to be laid on the platform H, the polishing tool beingsupposed to have'a quick reciprocating motion imparted to it. With hisfoot pressing on the treadle, the attendant forces up the platform'so asto bring the shirt bosom into contact with the polishing tool. With hishands, and by means ofthe lateral adjustments ofthe table, he can movethe shirt bosom underneath the polishing tool in such manneras may benecessary to cause the latter to pass over and polish the entire surfaceto be acted on by it.' Y

I am aware that, for polishing or dressing leather, a vibratory tool.has been applied vtov and moved on'and along a table or bed-therefore Imake no claim to s'ucln, i

The shirt-bosom ironing machine, made substantially as and to operate asdescribe-d, viz, of the chambered polisber, (to be heated asdescribed,)the mechanism to .operate vor move such polisher, the platform forsupport'- ing the work, the mechanismA for moving such platformlaterally a'nd vertically in manner as specified, the whole beingapplied to a frame, and so as to Operate substantially ashereinbefcreexplained.

u WM. M. TOBEY.

Witnesses: y

R. H. EDDY, GEC. H. ANDREWS.

